Property from the Walker Art Center, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Everett Franklin Spruce
Old Tree
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October 9, 04:55 PM GMT
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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5,000 USD
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Description
Property from the Walker Art Center, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Everett Franklin Spruce
1908 - 2002
Old Tree
signed E. Spruce (lower left)
oil on board
29 ⅞ by 23 ⅞ in.
75.9 by 60.6 cm.
T.B. Walker Foundation and Gilbert M. Walker Fund, Minneapolis
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1951 by the present owner
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Fifth Biennial Purchase Exhibition of American Painting, 1950
New York, American Federation of Arts, Everett Spruce, 1959, no. 16, pp. 26 and n.p., illustrated (dated 1952)
“Walker’s Fifth Biennial Keeps Public and Painters Up-to-Date,” The Digest, vol. 25, 1 November 1950, p. 9, illustrated
Magazine of Art: San Francisco Museum of Art Edition, vol. 44, 1950, p. 80
Shirley Reece-Hughes, Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce, College Station, Texas, 2020, p. 79
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